Akira Takarada
Akira Takarada was a Japanese film actor best known for his roles in the Godzilla film series.
Godzilla
as Immigration OfficerFord Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is...
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Godzilla
as Hideto OgataJapan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the...
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Godzilla: Final Wars
as UN Secretary General Naotarô DaigoHumanity finally rids themselves of Godzilla, imprisoning him in an icy tomb in the South Pole....
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
as OgataDuring an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla
as Ichiro "Ichi" SakaiJournalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found...
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep
as YoshimuraSearching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two...
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Invasion of Astro-Monster
as Astronaut K. FujiAstronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the...
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The End of Summer
as Teramoto TadashiThe family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and...
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Godzilla vs. Mothra
as Environmental Planning Board Chief Jyoji MinaminoMothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two...
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King Kong Escapes
as Lt. Commander Jiro NomuraAn adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the...
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Godzilla
as OgataA re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S....
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
as HimselfA look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the...
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Minbo, or the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion
as KobayashiAn upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help...
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Woman in Witness Protection
as Police CommissionerVain, middle-aged actress Biwako is placed in witness protection while authorities investigate...
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Dance with Me
as Machin UedaSuzuki Shizuka is an office lady at a conglomerate who is hypnotized at a local amusement park...
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Samurai Saga
as Jutaro [Jurota] KaribeEdmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an...
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Glory to the Filmmaker!
as Gentleman in a White MercedesTakeshi Kitano plays a version of himself in which he's a struggling director cycling through a...
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Half Human
as Takeshi IijimaThree competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as...
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47 Ronin
as Gunpei TakadaAfter their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await...
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The Storm of the Pacific
as uncreditedLt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the...
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Latitude Zero
as Dr. Ken TashiroA massive underwater volcano erupts and puts a group of investigative scientists in danger. They...
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The Big Boss
as Mineo KomatsuRyuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in...
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The Three Treasures
as Prince WakatarashiThe legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to...
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Ironfinger
as Andrew HoshinoAfter being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets...
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A Whistle in My Heart
as uncreditedThe story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the...
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Golden Eyes
as Andrew HoshinoA killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling...
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
as Ogata (as Akiro Takarata)Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho...
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Legend of Plumeria
as uncreditedEmiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira...
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A Wanderer's Notebook
as FukuyaConsidered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook...
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Tales of a Golden Geisha
as InukaiThe film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the...
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The Great Buddha Arrival
as NarratorAn all-star reboot of the lost classic 1934 film, The Giant Buddha Statue's Travel Through The...
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Road to the Don 12
as uncreditedThe twelfth 'Road to the Don' film.
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A Far Promise
as uncreditedThere was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the...
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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
as Self - ActorJapan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic...
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Star of Hong Kong
as Hasegawa ToruWang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has...
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Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
as The Boy (Her Brother)An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in...
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The Lovelorn Geisha
as uncreditedA woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother...
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The Last War
as TakanoA Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the...
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A Woman's Life
as Koichi ShimizuA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Reiji SakanishiSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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Price of Beauty
as Koichi YamawakiMelodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".
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Morishige, where are you going?
as Akira WakayamaA man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter...
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The Wiser Age
as Rokkakuya KouDrama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
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Blood and Diamonds
as uncreditedA group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions...
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Yaji and Kita on the Road
as Akinosuke TakaraiTwo residents of Edo city Yaji and Kita make a journey to the temple of Ise, as part of a...
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Sure Death 6
as uncreditedWhen an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter...
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Different Sons
as Kensuke AkagiIn the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray...
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Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction
as HimselfAn independent crowd-funded documentary that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world's...
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City of Love
as Kunio MurataAiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and...
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Woman of Design
as Kosuke SakaiStory of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a...
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Fantastipo
as uncreditedTwo brothers must take the helm of their family's company, Armadillo, Inc., after their father...
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The Daphne
as KudoFour sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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The Man of the Political Economy
as uncreditedMatsunaga Yasuzaemon was a man called “Electricity Monster”. The post-war recovery and high...
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A Night in Hong Kong
as Hiroshi TanakaRomantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a...
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Let's Go! Young Guy
as Kou KureCollege student Yuuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face...
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Mikio Naruse 100th Birth Anniversary
as VoiceoverBecause his style was similar to that of Yasujiro Ozu, who was already active at Shochiku, he...
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
as uncreditedMasuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in...
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Making of Godzilla vs. Mothra
as HimselfA look into the production of the nineteenth Godzilla film. Includes filmmaker and actor...
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A World Without Cherry Blossoms
as KeizoSaki, a high school girl who always skips classes, works part-time as a life adviser.
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Beyond the Hills
as Kentaro - UeshimaStory of young love in the hills.
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Godzilla Battle Royale
as Sec. General FujiGodzilla Battle Royale is a low-budget Godzilla fan film, directed and written by Billy DuBose....
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The Dangerous Kiss
as uncreditedStarring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.
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My name is Reiko Shiratori! The Movie
as Kichitaro ShiratoriReiko and Tetsuya continue to live together. Reiko, who was informed by Kyoko that she was...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
as uncreditedAn Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the...
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On Wings of Love
as Hajime KyosuOn Wings of Love is a 1957 Japanese romantic musical film directed by Toshio Sugie. It was...
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Me and Me
as Akihiko KinugasaToho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats....
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Travels of Lord Mito
as Sukesaburô SasakiIn the 9th year of Genroku, Mitsukuni Mito Komon of Hitachi Province set out on a pilgrimage to...
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
as Tatsuo ItoAn Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as...
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Someday I'll Know
as Daisuke KanekoA modern love story involving different affairs.
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Birth of Romance
as Ichirô YabeThe cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties,...
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Bridge over Troubled Water
as CEO OgataMiyuki works as an OL. Her younger sibling died from a car accident in 1989. Due to her...
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Nipponia Nippon – Fukushima Rhapsody
as uncreditedNaraho town in Fukushima Prefecture is on the front-line of the government-funded nuclear power...
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The Audition
as EmceeFour girls and their manager aiming for stardom!
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The Paradise Island Story
as uncreditedMusical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
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Hibari, Chiemi, Izumi: Sannin yoreba
as uncreditedPlayhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer's investigation of...
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Carnation
as uncreditedCarnation is a Japanese television drama that aired in the Asadora slot on NHK from 3 October...
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Watashi no Aozora
as Joji MuraiThis is the story of a young mother, Kitayama Nazuna, and her son Taiyo from Ohma, a small town...
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Keisei Saimin no Otoko
as Ikeda ShigeakiA 3-part series of biographical dramas to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the establishment...
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Homework
as uncreditedA drama about two young couples, both of them having problem keeping their relationship together.
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My name is Reiko Shiratori!
as Shiratori Kichitaro [Reiko's father]The series follows the rich, beautiful, and stuck-up Reiko Shiratori, who has been in love with...
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Prince Shotoku
as Mononobe no MoriyaIn the late 6th century the leaders of the Yamato Dynasty had no clear plan for the creation of...
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Nukata no Ōkimi
as uncreditedA historical romance about the life of Princess Nukata, a Manyo poetess who was loved by two...
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